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Sunday, 9 August 2015

The 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki

“An irradiated crucifix lies in the ruins of the Urakami Cathedral Following the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki”

70 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a
plutonium bomb over Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing,
incinerating or otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent
civilians, a disproportionately large number of them Japanese
Christians. The explosion mortally wounded uncountable thousands of
other victims who succumbed to the blast, the intense heat and/or the
radiation.

In 1945, the US was regarded as the most Christian nation in the world
(that is, if you can label as truly Christian a nation whose churches
are proponents of eye-for-an-eye retaliation, are supportive of
America’s military and economic exploitation of other nations or
otherwise fail to sincerely teach or adhere to the ethics of Jesus as
taught in the Sermon on the Mount).

Ironically, prior to the bomb exploding nearly directly over the Urakami
Cathedral at 11:02 AM, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan,
and the massive cathedral was the largest Christian church in the
Orient.

Those baptized and confirmed Christian airmen, following their wartime
orders to the letter, did their job efficiently, and they accomplished
the mission with military pride, albeit with an astonishing number of
near-fatal glitches in the mission. Most of us Americans would have done
what the crew did if we had been in the shoes of the Bock’s Car crew.
And, if we had never seen, heard or smelled the suffering humanity that
the bomb caused on the ground, and if we had been treated as heroes in
the aftermath, most of us would have experienced no remorse for our
participation in what was retrospectively universally regarded as a war
crime.

Indeed, the use of the most monstrous weapons of mass destruction in the
history of warfare, was later defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal as an
international war crime and a crime against humanity.

Of course, there was no way that the crew members knew that at the time
of the mission. Some of the crew did admit that they had had some doubts
about what they had participated in after the bomb actually detonated.
But none of them actually witnessed the horrific suffering of the
victims up close and personal. “Orders are orders” and disobedience in
wartime is severely punishable, even by summary execution, so the crew
obeyed the orders.Read more

Information Clearing House

Alison Weir / If Americans Knew...

The Corbett Report

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Signs of the Times

Photojournalism:

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The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. We have been blinded to the depravity of our ruling elite by the relentless propaganda of public relations firms that work on behalf of corporations and the rich.

We need to remember that, psychopaths and other personality disordered individuals really have no choice but to be what they are; they are like forces of nature. But normal human beings DO have a choice as to whether they will accept abuse or not. By accepting abuse, they give power to the psychopaths to abuse others so it is not just a matter of self-preservation; it is a matter of making sure that our children have a future. It seems that, in a world where the people cannot or will not, rise up against psychopathy in power, the Cosmos will do it for them, and take them out as well for their silence and their weakness. The bottom line is, nobody and no event is going to “save” anyone. It is only human beings, individually and collectively, who have the power to BE salvation.” – Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Plans for control of the evil forces that have been loosed in the world, attempts to compensate the evil- doing by good works or sympathy for the victims, efforts to safeguard the peace or to effect ideal solutions of all the material problems involved, can do little to change the nature of the situation. The real problem, namely, the question of what can be done for civilization in face of the nonhuman forces arising from the collective unconscious in thousands or rather millions of individual persons, will remain untouched. However, if only one human being has met and solved the problem in himself, he will be a living demonstration of a solution. Such an individual carries with him the germ of a renaissance of the spiritual values of mankind.

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